1 Chronicles 12:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

[They were] armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and [shooting] arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

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  • Judg 3:15 : 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
  • Judg 20:16 : 16 Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss.
  • 1 Sam 17:49 : 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
  • 1 Chr 12:29 : 29 And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.

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  • 1 Chr 12:1
    80%

    1¶ Now these [are] they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they [were] among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

  • Judg 20:14-17
    4 verses
    79%

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

    16Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss.

    17And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.

  • 1 Chr 12:3
    77%

    3The chief [was] Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,

  • 2 Sam 2:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which [pertained] to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

    16And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon.

  • 2 Chr 17:17
    73%

    17And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

  • 2 Sam 16:6
    71%

    6And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men [were] on his right hand and on his left.

  • 1 Chr 12:29
    71%

    29And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.

  • 1 Chr 12:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15These [are] they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all [them] of the valleys, [both] toward the east, and toward the west.

    16And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

  • 1 Chr 20:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.

    8These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
    70%

    8And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.

  • 1 Chr 12:21
    70%

    21And they helped David against the band [of the rovers]: for they [were] all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.

  • 2 Sam 4:2
    70%

    2And Saul's son had two men [that were] captains of bands: the name of the one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

  • 1 Sam 14:16
    69%

    16¶ And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down [one another].

  • 1 Sam 9:1
    69%

    1¶ Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name [was] Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

  • 1 Chr 12:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23¶ And these [are] the numbers of the bands [that were] ready armed to the war, [and] came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.

    24The children of Judah that bare shield and spear [were] six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

  • 1 Chr 12:8
    69%

    8And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, [and] men of war [fit] for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces [were like] the faces of lions, and [were] as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

  • Judg 20:39
    69%

    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first battle.

  • 1 Chr 8:40
    69%

    40And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these [are] of the sons of Benjamin.

  • 1 Sam 13:2
    69%

    2Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    69%

    17And [there were] a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

  • 2 Sam 2:12
    69%

    12And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

  • 1 Sam 13:22
    68%

    22So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    68%

    25¶ And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.

  • 1 Sam 14:21
    68%

    21Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites that [were] with Saul and Jonathan.

  • 2 Sam 21:22
    68%

    22These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

  • 1 Chr 26:32
    68%

    32And his brethren, men of valour, [were] two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.

  • 1 Chr 10:3
    68%

    3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

  • Judg 20:25
    68%

    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    68%

    13And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

  • 1 Sam 22:7
    68%

    7Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, [and] make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;

  • 1 Sam 13:16
    68%

    16And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that were] present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

  • 2 Chr 11:12
    68%

    12And in every several city [he put] shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

  • Num 1:36
    68%

    36Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    67%

    19Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [were] in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

  • Judg 20:32
    67%

    32And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

  • 2 Sam 1:22
    67%

    22From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.

  • 2 Sam 21:16
    67%

    16And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.

  • 1 Sam 14:2
    67%

    2And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;

  • 1 Sam 31:3
    67%

    3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

  • Judg 20:45
    67%

    45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

  • 1 Sam 14:52
    67%

    52And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    67%

    18¶ The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, [were] four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

  • Num 2:22
    67%

    22Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin [shall be] Abidan the son of Gideoni.